Goodwood Revival: Golden oldies on show

Some of the greatest sports cars ever to take to the public roads have come about through the toughest of upbringings on the race track. It's hard to believe today, but in the Swinging Sixties all was not peace and love between two of the biggest names on the road, Ford and Ferrari. They fought a bitter war on the track, after Enzo Ferrari purportedly pulled out at the 11th hour of a deal to sell up to Ford. With Henry Ford II's nose knocked out of joint, in the spring of 1963 he issued orders to take on Enzo at his own game and build a Ford racing car that would demolish Ferrari's finest. The result was the Ford GT40, a car conceived and built in the UK. In the 1966 Le Mans 24-hour race, and barely more than two years after its racing debut, all three steps of